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Global recession fears intensify; Tom Hanks tests positive in Australia; NBA basketball season suspended indefinitely. Follow the latest.
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In Paris the show goes on, as smaller concert halls find creative ways to get round France’s ban on gatherings of more than 1,000 people.
While Madonna cancelled the last dates of her tour in Paris, the US rock band Nada Surfgot got round the ban by playing the same Paris concert twice in one evening.
Chelsea Manning attempts suicide in prison, legal team says
Former US intelligence analyst and Wikileaks whistleblower in hospital recovering, lawyers say
Chelsea Manning's legal team said Wednesday that the former intelligence analyst tried to take her own life Wednesday, but was transported to a hospital where she is recovering.
Ms Manning has been in jail since May 2019 for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks. She was scheduled to appear in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, on Friday for a hearing on a motion to terminate the civil contempt sanctions stemming from that refusal.
In the motion filed last month, Ms Manning's lawyers argued she has shown during her incarceration that she can't be coerced into testifying before a grand jury.
How has Taiwan kept its coronavirus infection rate so low?
Taiwan's number of COVID-19 infections is currently below 50, despite the island's proximity to the outbreak's epicenter on mainland China. Experts say early intervention has helped stop a public health crisis.
More than two months after a new virulent coronavirus emerged from the Chinese city of Wuhan, more than 100,000 people in dozens of countries around the world have been infected.
The COVID-19 infection, however, has largely spared Taiwan, despite the island's relative proximity to the virus's epicenter.
Violence as Chile marks right-winger Pinera's two years in power
Students clashed with riot police in Chile's capital Santiago during protests that marked the second anniversary of conservative President Sebastian Pinera taking office on Wednesday.
The protests coincided with the 30th anniversary of Chile's return to democracy after Augusto Pinochet's 1973-1990 dictatorship.
During a ceremony in Santiago, Pinera said that 30 years of democratic rule in Chile had been a "fertile" period that dragged eight million Chileans out of poverty.
The Secret History of U.S. Involvement in Brazil’s Scandal-Wracked Operation Car Wash
LEAKED CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN Brazilian officials reveal the inner workings of a secretive collaboration with the U.S. Department of Justice on a sprawling anti-corruption effort known as Operation Car Wash. The chats, analyzed in partnership with the Brazilian investigative news outlet Agência Pública, show that the Brazilians were extremely accommodating to their U.S. partners, going out of their way to facilitate their involvement in ways that may have violated international legal treaties and Brazilian law.
Operation Car Wash, or Lava Jato in Portuguese, rocked Brazil’s political and business establishment, leading to the imprisonment of former president Luis Inácio Lula da Silva — a move that barred him from reelection and paved the way for a win for far-right Jair Bolsonaro. It also led to massive fines and economic and reputational harm for some of Brazil’s most important companies. Yet the investigation itself has been mired in controversy, especially after reporting by The Intercept and partners revealed clear misconduct and political bias by the judge and prosecutors who handled the case against Lula.
Three US-led coalition soldiers killed in rocket attack in Iraq
At least 10 wounded as barrage of Katyusha rockets hits Taji military base near Baghdad where US personnel are housed.
At least three US-led coalition soldiers have been killed after multiple rockets hit an Iraqi base housing US and coalition troops on Wednesday, according to a statement by Operation Inherent Resolve.
The statement added that at least 12 more soldiers were injured during the attack, which is "under investigation by the coalition and Iraqi security forces".
Male footballers should earn more than women... according to US football authorities
The US women's football team is less skilled and has fewer responsibilities than their male colleagues, according to US Soccer.
Lawyers for the football governing body in the US have submitted the claims in legal papers as part of a lawsuit over equal pay filed by 28 women's national team players - the court trial is expected to start on 5 May.
It stated that the job of a male footballer on the national team "requires a higher level of skill based on speed and strength" than their female counterparts.
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